Police here believed the grenade attack on New Year's Eve was not meant for the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) but to the family of a militiaman.
"The target of the grenade thrower was the family of militiaman Narciso Tropa who were walking toward the Church for the New Year’s Eve mass," Supt. Franklin Anito, Carmen police chief, told reporters.
Quoting one of the victims, Anito said they saw an unidentified man standing at a dirt road they were to pass in going to the Church for the New Year's Eve mass.
“Definitely, the target was not the Church,” he told reporters. He said the victims could not identify the man as it was dark.
“They just noticed that the man tossed something hard on the ground and hurriedly left,” he said.
Police investigators believed the suspect was after Narciso Tropa, a member of local militiaman group in Barangay Ugalingan, Carmen. He was unharmed.
The grenade went off not far from a house owned by the Tropa family, wounding four family members, Amy, 53, Chabelita, 12, Ading, 16, and John Loyd, 6, all undergoing medication at a hospital.
Also injured in the blast was 16-year old Marielle Montayer, who sustained shrapnel wounds in different parts of her body.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=601120
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